The Patriots' initial plans for the 2013 season included a specific vision for what veteran safety Adrian Wilson would bring to the team.

Wilson

A bigger presence at the position at 6-foot-3 and 230 pounds, the hard-hitting Wilson made a positive early impression with teammates and earned the nickname "Incredible Hulk" because of his chiseled physique. But things ultimately didn't unfold as planned, with Wilson on the roster bubble by the end of the preseason before he landed on season-ending injured reserve.

On Friday, Wilson was a guest on Fox Sports 910 AM Phoenix, speaking on the "The Drive" with Jody, MJ & Bauer. His tone suggested that he doesn't expect to be back in New England in 2014 despite signing a three-year deal with the club last March.

"Being out for a whole year and sitting back and watching is way tougher than what I imagined," Wilson said on the program. "Now I'm really just focusing on myself, not so much the situation, just trying to get myself healthy and just ready to play, whether it's New England or whatever ... I really don't know what's going to happen. So I'm just trying to focus in on myself right now."

The former Arizona Cardinal said on the program that he would like to play in 2014 and beyond.

Wilson is scheduled to earn a $1.5 million base salary in 2014 and has a salary cap charge of $1.8 million. If he is released, the Patriots would pick up about $1.2 million in cap space.

And I was thinking this thread would be a discussion about Adrian Wilson. By this time I should know better.

A. Wilson, IMO, was only a bad signing if BB knew in advance that the guy would get hurt. Anyone on here know in advance that Wilson would tear up an achilles?

ATJ, of course I did not know. But the info regarding Wilson was that he did not tear his achilles. It was frayed to the point that it was effecting performance. Cause was wear and tear, and was possibly the reason Wilsons performance fell off so much in Arizona.

Was it possible this could have been detected in his physical?

Personally, I did not see a lot of Wilson in his prime (he was playing in Stl and Arz and I was attending Pats games). But what if? Could the surgery have corrected the issue, and will Wilson be able to come back and be 90% of what he was? The conversation with Vince at 375 pounds, having the same surgery(maybe worse as Vince tore his) is to sign him for 3 years at $12M.

An arguement could be made that Wilson in his prime was just the player Vince was in his prime, albeit in different capacity. Taking a wait and see with Wilson at $1.2M seems prudent IMO

I wonder if he'll find another team dumb enough to give him a contract? I doubt it.

Yeah, terrible player and career. lmao

Stay in that bubble, Hurlie! Tell us again how you scouted Rice back in '85 with his drop rate as a rookie just like you followed Wilson's career.

Tell us!

LOL!

Cannot be made up. The tool mocks HOF caliber people from behind a keyboard as a Home Ec teacher at a middle school.

Larry David can't write scripts like this.

Adrian had a great career...no doubt he was the Rodney Harrison of his generation...wish we had him ten years ago. It amazes me that a guy who kows nothing about football (you) can run around here pretending that you are the only one who has ever heard of Adrian Wilson. LOL

Just last night you compared Jerry Rice to Aaron Dobson. LOL! That was a good one! Then you proceeded to tell us guys like Roger Craig and Dwight Clark were on par with the guys Brady is throwing to now...can't be made up. Remember that stuff? How you explained Montana never complained about his surrounding cast? Funny how pezz called you out on that and listed the 5 PRO BOWLERS Montana had to work with on offense BEFORE even considering Jerry Rice...why would Montana complain about that?

So to recap...Adrian Wilson was a great player, but so was Lawrence Taylor, Derrick Thomas, Ronnie Lott, Waren Sapp, Bruce Smith, Deion Sanders, Charles Haley, Ray Lewis and many more...according to you it would be great...just great!! If we signed some of those guys right now (as long as it's BB that does it). Hell Bill could sign Derrick Thomas tomorrow and you'd mindlessly tell all of us how Bill was going to use his corpse in his "big nickel" alignment, how Derrick would bring more "flexibility" to our fronts. Dope.

I wonder if he'll find another team dumb enough to give him a contract? I doubt it.

Yeah, terrible player and career. lmao

Stay in that bubble, Hurlie! Tell us again how you scouted Rice back in '85 with his drop rate as a rookie just like you followed Wilson's career.

Tell us!

LOL!

Cannot be made up. The tool mocks HOF caliber people from behind a keyboard as a Home Ec teacher at a middle school.

Larry David can't write scripts like this.

Adrian had a great career...no doubt he was the Rodney Harrison of his generation...wish we had him ten years ago. It amazes me that a guy who kows nothing about football (you) can run around here pretending that you are the only one who has ever heard of Adrian Wilson. LOL

Just last night you compared Jerry Rice to Aaron Dobson. LOL! That was a good one! Then you proceeded to tell us guys like Roger Craig and Dwight Clark were on par with the guys Brady is throwing to now...can't be made up. Remember that stuff? How you explained Montana never complained about his surrounding cast? Funny how pezz called you out on that and listed the 5 PRO BOWLERS Montana had to work with on offense BEFORE even considering Jerry Rice...why would Montana complain about that?

So to recap...Adrian Wilson was a great player, but so was Lawrence Taylor, Derrick Thomas, Ronnie Lott, Waren Sapp, Bruce Smith, Deion Sanders, Charles Haley, Ray Lewis and many more...according to you it would be great...just great!! If we signed some of those guys right now (as long as it's BB that does it). Hell Bill could sign Derrick Thomas tomorrow and you'd mindlessly tell all of us how Bill was going to use his corpse in his "big nickel" alignment, how Derrick would bring more "flexibility" to our fronts. Dope.

Yes, Rusty loves to spend his life here, telling us how great, worthless players are (for the Pats) and how worthless the great ones are.

Anyone who took an unbiased look at A. Wilson in his last half of season in Ari could see the wheels were starting to come off. Could it be that's when the injury started and it was a slow progression after that? It's a very good possibility and not out of the realm of possibility the Pats completely missed it like they did Fenana. Seriously someone needs to question the person doing the physicals down there. I said it after he was signed, he had a great career but judging from his last half of his season in Ari he was into his back 9 and skipping some holes. That some thought he was coming in as the next Rodney was laughable to me and got killed by some for it. This is a case I hate being right but it seems to have happened a lot this year with my predictions (A. Wilson won't give much if anything, Amendola would get hurt same with Vereen and Talib, Amendola's contract was going to hurt us in multiple ways to long term and too much guaranteed money for a player who might not be able to play in 3 years because of injures, you can't count on a guy like Armstead to come in and take over a starting role before we even see him play, We were thin at DT and it was going to hurt us)